"After a year of experiments, Hollywood has begun to embrace virtual reality as a potentially lucrative part of its future. 21st Century Fox has crafted an immersive clip using the film Wild, while Time Warner's HBO has created a similar experience with Game of Thrones."www.stuff.co.nz/techno...

Who knows. I just spunked 400 noop on a gfx card, so I could end up getting one start of next year after I get back from Asia. But if I've got something else I'd rather spend the money on, then I'll do that. You can be interested in something without being first on a bandwagon. I'm happy to let things progress a bit, also. 1st/2nd gen brand new tech is always a bit pants compared to when when the dust settles once the consumer tech is refined and the market allows for competitive pricing. Sure look at the 1st couple of iPhone/smartphones. They were pretty shite for the cost of them.

I would say the bbc nature docs have sold a fair few hd tvs last gen. Wouldn't be surprised if its the same for vr. Perfect use of the tech. Cant wait for more like that. One thing if anything i didnt like about planet earth 2 was it kind of seemed fake. like when you see a really good professional photo of a landscape or something you know, it looks amazing but you just know you cant see that with the naked eye.

But when we start getting vr videos like that of the moon or mars. Or even just places around the world it will be amazing. Google streetview isnt that many years off a fully explore-able 360' world.

Belfast in Google Earth now has 3D buildings everywhere. I was looking at the houses around the area where I live and checking out their extensions out the back and things. No idea how it's done, but it pretty amazing.

Takki, what I mean is, once you have free head movement in a scene, you have essentially cut out the director of the scene. You could be completely missing the action by looking at the wrong part of the scene.

Oculus may be closing out 2016 with a bang with the launch of its Touch controllers, but HTC is going to kick off 2017 with something special: a peripheral that makes its Vive headset wireless.

HTC today announced a tether-less VR upgrade kit for its SteamVR device, made by TPCAST, one of the first of 33 companies to join the Vive X Accelerator. A preview version of the kit was shown off today at Alibaba’s “11/11” global shopping festival in Shenzhen, China. This is not the wireless prototype device in the works at Quark VR.

see oculus have lowered the spec of the pc required to run the rift. Not sure if thats a software thing they have done to make lower end pcs run better on the rift. Or are they shitting it because it isnt going as well as they thought so just going to try sell as many as possible now even if they dont run so well. Also might be devs just are not making enough games that hit the min solid 90fps.? Seem strange either way.

Hopefully a bit of a price drop on the cards soon then. Whats it like back home for people getting psvr? Not really heard anyone talking about getting one. When im back home for christmas i plan on heading down to one of the shops to give it a go. You think many teens would be getting it for Christmas?

Also, can we have a moment of silence for all the kids who get PSVR from their parents who had no idea you needed the playstation cam as well? Poor kids waking up on Christmas day to a present they can't use.

no official links, just what i've read over at Neogaf from owners of PSVR who've bought a Pro and saying there's a real big noticeable difference to patched games, added details, sharper visuals, longer draw distances etc

Anyone know anywhere in town where I can trial PSVR?Getting some vouchers for Christmas and am very tempted to put them toawards a PSVR, but not until I at least try it. Are game still doing the £5 for 20 minutes thing?